Causes: Environment, Natural Resources Conservation & Protection

Mission: The Land Conservation Assistance Network (LandCAN) works to promote the protection of wetlands, forests, farms, endangered species habitats, and other open spaces by empowering landowners to make smart, sustainable decisions about their land.

Results: Since 2000, LandCAN has developed its national websites and nine state sites that all provide online resources for private landowners and others who are interested in land conservation. The organization also created the Habitat Conservation Assistance Network (HabitatCAN) to provide resources about the sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken. Resources for the monarch butterfly are in development.

Target demographics: resource providers and private landowners who steward the ranch lands, nonindustrial forest lands, and farm land of the United States.

Direct beneficiaries per year: 244,700 in 2010

Geographic areas served: National (all 50 states in the USA)

Programs: Conservation Yellow Pages of natural resource management professionals; Tax and Estate Planning Advice; Conservation Resources (cost-share programs); Resource Library for experts and landowners; "Keep Working Lands Working" blog of interviews with national leaders; Toolbox with links to resources of immediate use to landowners, Exchange with daily updates on deadlines for federal, state, local programs and news.